"Balloon-based Telescopes Shed Light on Dark Matter Mysteries"
The Super Pressure Balloon-Borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT), the world's first wide-field, balloon-borne telescope, has begun returning images to Earth, with scientists keen to begin months of imagery to help investigate the existence of dark matter. SuperBIT's main scientific objective is to measure the properties of dark matter, a term given to the invisible-yet-mathematically-required quarter of the matter in the universe that we're unable to see or detect in any way other than its interactions with gravity.